Workforce Motivation

Employee motivation within an organization depends on multiple factors – and its success on the organization’s ability to develop the right combination. Motivation can be both positive and negative so understanding the main concepts is critical for any HR professional to be able to develop suitable programs as well as coach people managers to create motivated workforce that delivers its full potential while still protecting the organization from potentially unethical forms of motivation. There are multiple motivation theories yet one size does not fit all. This course focuses on exploring the different factors that impact motivation – gender, culture, generation as well as personality, experience and perception in context of organizations. The role of the management is to understand these factors so that employees do not feel they need to just do a required minimum but actually want to do the best they can. This course builds upon basic principles of management and organizational behavior. The emphasis is on understanding both internal and external factors that impact motivation and opportunities to manage these factors. Strong emphasis is on the role of Human Resources to develop context of managerial and organizational approach towards employees. Througout the course vairous motivational theories as well as organizational principlees and their practical implementation related to changing global environment will be evaluated.